The Latest: Muslim woman's alleged attacker dismissed by IU

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — The latest on the attack on a Muslim woman by a 19-year-old man in Bloomington, Indiana (all times are local ):

4:30 p.m.

An Indiana University spokesman says a 19-year-old man accused of attacking a Muslim woman and trying to remove her headscarf is no longer a student at the Bloomington campus.

IU spokesman Mark Land says the university's dean of students "dismissed" Triceten Bickford from the school Monday evening as a "direct result of what happened over the weekend." The woman was attacked outside a cafe Saturday night.

Land says that for privacy reasons he cannot go into the details of the university's action against Bickford, but says Bickford's dismissal from IU "wasn't his choice." Bickford is a Fort Wayne resident who had been a sophomore majoring in psychology.

Land says the university won't have anything more to say about Bickford, and will "let the legal process run its course."

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11:45 a.m.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations says an apparently racially motivated attack on a Muslim woman in Indiana fits a pattern of similar attacks against Muslims nationwide.

In a phone interview Tuesday, a spokesman for the advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., said he's disconcerted by the assault in Bloomington on Saturday.

Ibrahim Hooper says there's been "a tremendous spike in the level of anti-Muslim sentiment in our society and increasingly violent hate rhetoric" in recent years.

Nineteen-year-old Indiana University student Triceten Bickford faces charges including intimidation, strangulation and battery in the attack, but authorities released him after he paid $705 in bond and other fees.

Hooper says the low bail suggests authorities aren't taking the attack seriously. He says CAIR wants "prosecutors to apply the full weight of the law."

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7:40 a.m.

A 19-year-old Indiana University student says drinking alcohol and not taking anti-anxiety medication led him to attack a Muslim woman at a cafe in Bloomington.

Triceten D. Bickford tells WTHR-TV in Indianapolis (http://bit.ly/1RlIiQi ) that he is "so sorry to that woman." He says he doesn't have any memory of the incident Saturday night.

According to a police report, a 47-year-old woman was sitting with her 9-year-old daughter when a man shouted racially charged threats before grabbing her by the neck and trying to take off her headscarf.